Carbon dioxide emissions are expected to a return to pre-epidemic rise this year, last year they fell sharply on time
great lock in China they go back and grow generally due to coal the problem provided only climate change to rest an unprecedented boom of usage to promote the global economy and people drive too much to avoid it infections in public transport then there is the most visible epidemic if a plastic waste hello I'm Ben fallen millions of people all over the world they take to dress
mask to protect themselves, but they are harming the environment
We will talk about that and the epidemic carbon footprint per second with a gentleman dieter helm begins this report solo islands far southwest of a field covering Hong Kong the water here has long been polluted but with a pandemic a new kind of waste he has arrived mask 'and' now we have this to deal with we have coronavirus and all these candies are bathing on the beaches these pictures make me start to wonder how dangerous are these masks our planet. It's something that most of us wear now every day and why many of them end up perfect the sea instead of waste through normal channels and what is the proper way to dispose of a mask however hide FFP even a high-grade respirator mask or basic surgery or the rubber gloves that people use are also common.
Now they are all garbage again they are not ready to be recycled because they are medical waste that has been used, therefore they need to be burned. Sometimes you end up with it microplastic is what makes a mask bad for the coastal environment. Hong Kong scientists find a growing number of those who measure it to enter about 1.5 billion mask. In the sea last year we need to reduce the number of single uses one, but then it also comes down to it. Governments and uh you know how they handle their waste administrative institutions because like here garbage cans garbage bins on the road if they have one very wide holes at the top and people they just put on their masks to think they are to do right.
And they are easily beaten again as long as they go out and come in on the road down the canals themselves, down the ditches and into all the drains leads to the sea. It looks like the mask will not be there, disappearing into our lives anytime soon.
There is already too much in it the sea for more let's ask dieter helm an Oxford economics professor of economics UK university is its author of many books and more recently knighted for his services to nature as well power policy. So the dieter we have seen all those used mask and test kits lying in plastic waste is another obvious phenomenon of the impact of the epidemic. What are others well you are right that uh plastic debris is up uh really very much, and we must remember that one of the drivers big demand for future oil is plastics, and it just shows how hard it is thinking about that though.
There are many other effects, I suspect that would be the greatest of all the effect of all of them.
Financial and financial incentives as well an additional need that creates a round Earth and I think it will be permanent.
The economic legacy of coronavirus and nature will have had an effect as a result, economic shocks are either way. That I mean that economists always he tells us that buy more for our economy to thrive create jobs uh do or should stop well. You know that a certain use is perfect associated with a sustainable economy and some do not. And uh the idea of purpose should just be a GDP upgrade which is a. The worst rate of welfare. It is one of the worst pots of some of them. That unstable food we have it should focus not only on carbon context but also of course in the world of living things wrote in May 2020 the most important. The lesson from the virus so far is that pollution and GDP are still related, not separated.
You see the changes here, well actually somehow I had high hopes for that statement turns out to be high GDP and high environmental impacts. They had been walking together and going especially carbon, but what we saw in time.
The coronavirus was a sharp breakthrough of GDP but without the natural bonus, so although that is true for example. Carbon emissions are significantly lower during lockdown, closure we can add two parts per million on carbon focus on in space as we did 30 years ago. So what we have learned I think that even if you have a contract uh need in the short term GDP in a short time is not enough to stop.
These basic bad habits in how our natural environment as well our climate is moving, talking about the weather and ours environment this climate problem. Combined with the loss of biodiversity and the spread of zoonotic diseases, uh they are also connected you think. People really understand that link. I highly doubt if it was all focus on reducing carbon emissions is complete. Realized that carbon emissions exist only part of the problem of climate change as well. It should be placed in a wide area the context knows the natural context emits carbon and us and nature emits carbon captivity is 50 or more of a climate change problem, and you just have to look at what it is to agriculture and soil as well to see that, and it turns out that. That part of the captivity is where i interactions come with biodiversity as well loss of biodiversity, take this amazing fact that Amazon is now its net emitter.
Carbon that is the largest biological bank hotspot in our world, not only now to destroy uh its biodiversity, as it is. They are burnt but also now contributing to climate change that. It should be a great wake-up call, and it is the kind of thing you need.
At least a lot of focus as obvious things like for example.
Out of the coals so
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